Plantation Days Parade

One of our local towns celebrates a week of Plantation Days every summer. The history of the island community is remembered with nature walks, outdoor movies, a rodeo, and family events. The biggest to-do is the culminating Plantation Days Parade which marches through the old part of town. The whole community comes out into the Saturday sunshine. Truck beds and trailers are decorated as make-shift floats with ti leaves and flowers. Shiny old cars are showcased all in a line. And of course, there are a lot of horses, recalling the old days of the paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy. Times have changed here in Hawaii. The days of the plantations are over, replaced with the overpowering growth of tourism. People here like to remember the simpler days, when the sugar plantations were still running, when the world didn't have any stoplights. 

the veterans were driving these tiny cars for no apparent reason...

barefoot is rather trendy here...

gecko!

apparently, this is supposed to recall an image of Captain Cook...

Hawaiian Italian...

a grass skirt has to be the most uncomfortable outfit for riding...

ATV tours take you back into the rugged "wilderness"

always respect to the firefighters...

I'm curious as to how long this sign has been here. The bridge itself seems about to collapse.

an ancient Ford...